A King and a Fool? The Succession Narrative as a Satire. By Virginia Miller

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G Firth
Keyword(s):  
Succession Narrative

Traditional Composition in the "Succession Narrative"

1976 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.M. Gunn
Keyword(s):  
Succession Narrative

Human and Musical Sounds and Their Hearing Elsewhere as a Literary Device in the Biblical Narratives

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Kalimi
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
Literary Device ◽  
Musical Sounds ◽  
Succession Narrative ◽  
Ark Narrative

AbstractThe biblical narrators utilize sounds of musical instruments and/or human voices being raised emotionally and their being heard someplace else as a literary tool and transitioning the reader from one place or group of people to another. The article discusses this literary tool as it appears in a number of narratives in the Hebrew Bible (namely, the Joseph Story, Ark Narrative, Throne Succession Narrative, Deuteronomistic and Chronistic histories, as well as the book of Ezra), and its effects.

Deciding the Boundaries of ‘Wisdom’

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Katharine J. Dell
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Family Resemblance ◽  
Song Of Songs ◽  
Ben Sira ◽  
Wisdom Of Solomon ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Joseph Narrative ◽  
Succession Narrative

Whilst it is generally agreed that the book of Proverbs is the mainspring of ‘wisdom’, there is considerable disagreement as to what exactly, beyond Proverbs, to include in the wisdom category and what the criteria for inclusion should be. That Job and Ecclesiastes should also form this core and that it should be further defined by the apocryphal books of Ben Sira and the Wisdom of Solomon is often taken for granted, but the material is very diverse in nature and genre. Then the question arises, should the net be widened to other parts of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, to narratives such as the Joseph Narrative and Succession Narrative or to a slippery selection of psalms that appear to be ‘wisdom’ in character, to Song of Songs and beyond. In fact, how do we classify any text showing significant wisdom influence? Indeed, is this categorization of ‘wisdom’ helpful at all? In this chapter, I suggest that there is a ‘core’ of wisdom material and that, as I have argued elsewhere, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes make up this core. Here, I go beyond this statement to evaluate the associations of other material with this core and suggest that the notion of family resemblance is a helpful descriptor for complex relationships between this material. I also consider the role of Solomon as the ‘father’ of wisdom and as the (symbolic?) figure that holds this ‘family’ together.

The stories of the family troubles of Judah and David: a study of their literary links

1999 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Ho
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical View ◽  
The Family ◽  
Succession Narrative

AbstractThis article adds some newly discovered literary links between Gen. xxxviii and the Succession Narrative (SN) to those already observed by scholars in the past thirty or so years. Gen. xxxviii is found to be dependent on and owes to the SN most of its literary components like names, plot, theme, motifs and special locutions. The literary conclusion arrived, contrary to the widely accepted traditio-historical view, is that Gen. xxxviii has no oral tradition stage before being written down. Further analysis of the story does not confirm its belonging to the J source but re-affirms its genealogical concern. The article concludes with a conjectured raison d'être for Gen. xxxviii, namely to provide a "narrative evidence" for David's genealogical link to Judah, i.e. to prove David's Jewishness. It is further conjectured that Gen. xxxviii was probably written about the time of the emergence of the book of Ruth, which shows similar concern.

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